Thursday, March 5, 2009

March Action: Reduce our Energy Use

Better late than never! Our goal for March is to find ways to reduce the amount of gas/electric we use.
We brainstormed ideas over dinner.
  • Turn the lights out when we are not using them
  • Get an energy audit of the house
  • Continue to use our drying rack ( which Ben is pointing to)
  • Continue to use flourescent bulbs
  • Put a power strip on my computer so we can turn it completely off
  • Graph our energy use for the past year on the MG and E website, so we can see what our use has been.
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3 comments:

Beth Albright said...

I like the air dryer- will pick one of these up at Target next time I go. We changed all our bulbs to CFLs this past year. Big difference. Also changed our electric dryer to a gas one, and changed to a more efficient (newer) frig. Lowered our bill by almost $65 a month. Also getting rid of a teenager (sending her off to college) helped a great deal (however the bill that came with college far outweighed our energy savings :)

John said...

Julie,

One of the "Kill A Watt" might be helpful in identifying big power drains.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009MDBU?ie=UTF8&tag=darkrain-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00009MDBU&gclid=CMKvxs7Cj5kCFQ0NDQodDBArZQ

Juliestest said...

We got our drying rack at Ace Hardware...I love hardware stores!